Healthcare staff enjoy high levels of public trust, which gives us a unique ability to drive action on planetary health.

We are an international collaboration of healthcare providers riding together to explore the actions we must take to protect the planet for our patients and children.

Through our days of cycling, we build hope, develop resilience, celebrate success, and spark constructive conversation.

Ride for their Lives started in October 2021 when a group of paediatric patients wrote urgent messages on the "blue bag" for us to carry to world leaders at the international climate conference, COP26 in Glasgow.

We have grown into an international frontline movement energising and inspiring action on air quality inequality and the wider climate and nature crisis.

Rides

Rides bring together diverse groups who understand local context and how best to promote the health benefits clean air. Rides are organised by participants and RFTL provides advice and a hosted page on our website to facilitate communication. Everyone rides at their own risk but we look out for each other.

Webpage

We use our webpage as a resource for everyone to share their rides, stories of hope and as an educational knowledge base. Our ride map shows we are not alone in fighting for cleaner air and the health benefits it brings.

Funding

We don't really have any. Largely we do this in our own time and from our own collective pockets. On the plus side we are thus only beholden to our own collective truth.